Has anyone else done this? It’s kind of a wild choice but I haven’t been as handicapped as I thought I would be.
It does cause me to have a slower reaction time but it’s not that much of an issue. In SWAT especially I do fantastic but I don’t have issues in any mode. I can’t tell if I’ve gotten better at making sniper shots or if I’m actually better at hitting players with the sniper now. Since there’s less distractions I can use the blue friendly dots to identify my teammates with pretty good consistency. When foliage obscures someone it does actually kind of hide them, so that is one downside. So far that’s only been a problem in very close range fights. I have to be careful when I’m in the gunner seat of a warthog or flying a wasp. The outlines make for easy instant target finding, so losing that does cause me to be less efficient.
I use the blue Cerulean for teammates (as well as the fireteam color) and a light purple Cerise color for enemies. I’ve turned off minimum FPS and set my max FPS to 60. If the game lowers the resolution of the screen on the fly in order to hit a FPS target then that means players get blurrier too. That kind of thing would make long range fights much harder. I used to have it at 30 FPS but I totally noticed the screen getting blurry sometimes so I turned it off.
I’m starting to wonder if the outlines are a compromise to allow the game to run well on older Xbox consoles or from a couch. The outlines are 100% a casual-friendly tool. That’s not bad but it does fundamentally change the game to remove all hiding at any range. Even with it off the distance limit on pings is annoying.